KOHDAY, JTT1IE 23, 1937.
PLATTSMOTTTH SEMI . WEEKLY JOURNAL
SEE SUCCESS FOR NORMS BILL
Washington, I. C, June 25. Pre
dictions the senate soon will approve
a nationwide system of regional
planning authorities came Friday
from senators conducting public
hearings on the question.
Chairman Pope (dem., Idaho), of
the senate agriculture subcommittee
considering the Norris bill to estab
lish the authorities, forecast it would
reach the senate floor unchanged in
a week or 10 days.
Other subcommittee members join
ed him in predicting it would pass
the senate, but would not speculate
about its fate in the house.
Karl S. Dixon, spokesman for the
Ohio Chamber of Commerce, criti
cized the administration-supported
bill before the subcommittee.
"We do not want flood control
made a secondary matter under new
planning agencies," he said.
The bill to create seven agencies
like the Tennessee Valley authority
was put forward by Senator Norris
(ind., Neb. ) after President Roosevelt
recommended such legislation to con
gress. LAND, FARM and
RANCH BARGAINS
BINDER FOR SALE
Seven foot John Deere binder.
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June Days Bring Paradise
To the Indolent Fisherman
Writer Succumbs to Lure of the Waters
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By WALTER SEIFERT
International Illustrated News
Feature Writer
CLEVELAND. Now is the time
when millions of lighthearted Amer
icans set out for river, lake or ocean
to dangle worms or flies across the
water and wash away the dust of
ordinary life.
They wade up to their hips in
mountain torrents. They build night
fires along the banks of placid mill
ponds. They perch atop stony break
walls for days at length, minding
not the protestations of their irate
wives, or the "clarion call" of busi
ness duties.
Searchers for Idleness
They seek only the blessedness of
perfect indolence, traveling to iso
lated places where they may escape
the smell of factory smoke, the roar
of railroad trains the night-honking
taxicabs. and all the other "won
ders" of civilization.
While their less fortunate broth
ers wrestle with sit-down strikes,
New Deal laws, and the horrors of
Spanish slaughter, the fishing clan
fights little battles of its own, against
the wary bass and trout. From dawn
to dusk they fish, disturbed only by
the splash of waterfalls and the eve
ning song of the thrush.
June Brings Paradise
June is the paradise of average
amateur fishermen. For economic
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UNFAIR PRACTICES CHARGED
Kansas City. Two independent
unions of . Montgomery Ward & Co.,
employes were barred from taking
active part in the opening of a hear
ing before a national labor board ex
aminer her on charges the company
indulged in unfair labor practices.
James C. Paradise, examiner from
Washington, allowed the union or
Ward wholesale employes to inter
vene in the hearing, but denied its
attorneys the privilege of cross-examination
or putting on testimony until
the labor board and the company
complete their case. The union of
Ward retail employes was denied any
participation whatsoever, Paradise
ruling that the group had no inter
est in the isue before him.
The day's hearing was ordered by
George O. Pratt, regional director for
the labor board, after a C. I. O. unit
of employes charged that the com
pany sponsored "company" unions
and indulged in other practices out
lawed by the Wagner labor act. The
C. I. O. union struck May 25, clos
ing the plant.
LIFE SUIT RECESSED
Grand Island. Trial of the suit
against Stanley Long, John Iloye
and- Floyd A. Robinson, directors of
the Pathfinder Life Insurance com
pany, Grand Island in which Louis
E. McCullough, 13 plaintiff, was re
cessed Wednesday afternon until
next Monday.
Phone news items to No. 6.
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reasons they have had to wait until
business slacked down into its sum
mer slump and vacation schedules
were posted.
But now the boss has signaled
"go"; the tackle has been bought
and readied, and to the waters they
will go, some 7,500,000 of them!
An estimated half billion dollars
will be spent upon the sport this
year, with some of it going for such
queer innovations as dehydrated
crickets and wriggly, rubber grass
hoppers. Resort Business Flourishing
Resort owners throughout the
country report that business is
breaking all post-depression records,
with Americans making good use of
their new-found leisure. The ped
dlers of minnows, dobson, squids,
crawfish, mice, frogs and flies are
working overtime, with pincered hell-
grammites bringing 80 cents a dozen.
Thanks to heavy late spring rains
and governmental restocking activ
ities, caches this year are uniformly
larger than in any recent season.
Huge bass have been landed, and
fighting pike.
But pardon me, Dear Reader. . .
The deep-red sun sinks low across
Old Erie, and a gentle southwest
breeze has ruffled the surface. They
say that last night's catches were
"tremendous," and although much
more could be written it's time to
go fishing!
Blackstem
Rust a Menace
to Wheat Crop
Recent Hot Dry Days Help Put
the Grain Beyond Reach of
Harm, However.
It's a race between blacitstem rust
and winter wheat in eastern Nebras
ka and the latter is winning out.
Such is the opinion of Dr. G. L.
Peltier, chairman of the bacteriology
and plant pathology department at
the college of agriculture.
"The last few days have meant
thousands of dollars to eastern Ne
braska wheat producers," he de
clared. "Heat and dry weather have
hurried the wheat on to maturity and
thus escaped a heavy build-up of
stem rust infection. Had the weather
of the past week continued, stem rust
damage in many localities would
have been severe."
Likening the survival of winter
wheat in this area to a race with" the
invading foe blackstem rust Dr.
Peltier declined to estimate the prob
able amount of damage from stem
rust. Rather, from the standpoint of
stem rust, he was optimistic concern
ing the improved weather. Cool,
damp weather prevents wheat from
reaching maturity rapidly and al
lows rust to gain a foothold on the
crop. Such happened in 1935 when a
severe epidemic struck Nebraska's
wheat crop and reduced it material
ly or about 15 percent.
While there is a possibility that
the spring wheat area of northwest
ern Nebraska may catch enough rust
to do considerable damage, the patho
logist is inclined to believe the ques
tion can only be answered by the
weather conditions that develop over
the area during the next few days.
There is considerable stem rust in
many eastern Nebraska fields. The
early maturity varieties probably will
escape severe injury.
Regarding barley Dr. Peltier said
that from the point of stem rust, its
later maturity places it in a position
similar to spring wheat. With un
favorable weather for crop maturity,
considerable stem rust might develop
on barley. Present weather condi
tions serve to retard stem rust de
velopment on the crop tho.
Blackstem rust is usually a threat
to Nebraska's small grain crop. In
sofar as known, there are two pos
sible sources of stem rust for Nebras
ka. Spores coming directly from bar
berries (alternate nost of stem rust)
are growing within the state. The
second source of rust is from spores
which may have blown in from south
ern grain producing areas. The rela
tive importance of the two sources
of stem rust varies from year to
year, depending upon weather.
FILING OF SECURITY CLAIMS
Twenty-seven Nebraksans had filed
claims for lump sum and death pay
ments under the social security act
up to June 22, according to Leo W.
Smith, manager of the Lincoln field
office of the social security board. On
June 1, a total of 5,390 claims had
been filed with the board in Washing
ton and only 43 hai been disallowed.
Mr. Smith pointed out that the ad
judication of a claim from an em
ploye who has reached age 65 in
volves little more than checking the
name and social security account
number, and establishing the age of
the claimant and the wages received.
Payment of such claims is ordinarily
made within approximately three
weeks.
Death claims require about a week
longer because such claims must be
paid in accordance with state laws
relating to priorities and exemptions
if funeral and last illness expenses
have not been paid. In addition,
there is a considerable variation of
procedure depending on whether a
will has been probated and who files
the claim. Claim forms and assist
ance in filing them are available,
without charge, at board offices.
DEERS TO BE POSTMASTER
Washington. Postoffice depart
ment officials advised Nebraska rep
resentatives they will send the name
of Bernard Diers to President Roose
velt for possible appointment as
postmaster at Scottsbluff. The civil
service commission recently certified
to the postoffice department as the
highest eligible in the competitive
examination list the name of A. C.
Cleveland. Subsequently Cleveland
notified the postoffice department he
did not care to take the appointment.
Diers' name, which was second on
the examination list, then was certi
fied for the place.
Our stock of legal blanks Is
most complete.
Sylvesters
Return from
Topeka, Kans.
Cass County Officers Witneses in
Trial of New York Bandits
Charged with Murder.
Thursday night Sheriff Homer Syl
vester and Deputy Sheriff Cass Syl
vester returned home from Topeka,
Kansas, where they have been since
last Monday attending the trial of
Robert J. Suhay and Glenn Apple-
gate, charged with the slaying of W.
W. Baker, federal operative in the
Topeka postoffice on the morning of
April 16th.
The case was tried in the federal
district court of Kansas, with Judge
Hopkins presiding and United States
District Attorney Alexander as the
prosecutor for the government. John
Kramer of Topeka, conducted the de
fense for the prisoners.
The two men, on trial had borne a
smiling and confident attitude as the
trial opened, but this was soon lost
as witness after witness told the
story of the shooting and identified
the two men as the ones involved in
the shooting of young Baker. Earl
J. Martin , companion officer of
Baker, dramtically told the story of
the shooting and the identification
of the two men while postal employes
and a group of the federal agents
also testified.
Sheriff Sylvester and Cass Sylves
ter, told of their now nationally fa
mous capture of the two men at the
Burlington subway in this city on
the night of April ICth. Describing
how they had tailed the car of the
bandits from Murray through this
city to the final showdown. They
identified the two men on trial as
those they had arrested and also the
guns that had been taken from the
two men when they were taken to
the Cass county jail, and the remark
of the sheriff, "put them up and
keep them up, you are under arrest"
as the two men were marched to the
jail.
The defense contended that the
slaying of Baker was done by the
men under the impression that they
were being held up and sought to
protect themselves.
While at Topeka, the Cass county
officers attracted much attention from
the public and press, being featured
in the Topeka State Journal as the
captors of the bandits.
Homer and Cass were luncheon
guests of the G-men from the Kansas
City office and also were entertained
at dinner by Senator W. W. Baker,
Sr., of Yuma, Oklahoma, the father
of the slain agent, and his son, B. B.
Baker.
RAILROADS GROW SAFER
New York. An improvement of
53 percent in safety performance by
American railroads between 1923 and
193 6 was reported by the American
Museum of Safety in citing three
lines for Harriman memorial safety
awards. Gold, silver and bronze
medals for "meritorious achievement
in the field of railroad safety" were
awarded respectively to the Chicago
& N. W. railway, the Detroit, To
ledo & Ironton railroad and the Lake
Superior & Ishpeming railroad.
The safety society also awarded a
certificate of special commendation to
Carl Raymond Gray, president of the
U. P. railroad. Comparing the safety
record of 1936 with that of 1923,
the society said: "The frequency of
casualties to passengers declined
from 7.06 per hundred million pas
senger miles in 1923 to 3.44 in 1936,
and improvement in safety perform
ance of 53 percent."
PLANS FLIGHT TO .RUSSIA
Oakland, Calif. Plans for a non
stop refueling flight from Oakland to
Moscow were announced Wednesday
by James Mattern, noted aviator, who
said he would follow the route taken
by the three soviet airmen who flew
from the Russian capital to Van
couver, Wash., last week. Mattern
said M. L. Benedum, Pittsburgh, had
backed him in acquisition of a $90,
000 plane which he would take from
Burbank, Calif., to Oakland Thurs
day in the initial test flight.
Mattern said he hoped to start late
in July or early in August. He ex
pressed a desire to compete in the
air derby from Marseille, France, to
Damascus, Syria, scheduled to begin
August 20. Because Mattern's plane
has a cruising radius of only 5,000
miles, he said he would refuel in
flight probably over Fairbanks.
Alaska.
See the gooes you Buy. Catalog
descriptions are alluring enough,
but how about the goods when
you get them?
CLUB INSTITUTE PROGRAM
Below i3 the program of the Club
Institute of Nebraska Federation of
Women's clubs of the First district
at Peru teachers college, Thursday
and Friday, July 1 and 2.
Mrs. W. R. Pate is director and
Mrs. E. II. Kayward is correspond
ing secretary.
Thursday Morning
8:30-9:30 Registration.
9: 30-10-: 10 Group singing, Mrs.
Inice Dunning, leader; Greetings,
Mrs. W. R. Pate, director; Welcome,
President W. R. Pate, P. S. T. C; Re
sponse, Mrs. John Beetem, president,
First district; Response, Mrs. M. S.
McDuffee, state president.
10:10-10:50 Know Your Furni
ture, (with Exhibits) Mr. A. V. Lar
son. 10:50-11:00. Music, high school
sextette.
10:10-12:10 Swimming exhibit.
12:20-1:20 Luncheon, Home Eco
nomics' rooms. Miss Edan Weare,
supervisor; Introductions and re
sponses; Stunt singing.
Thursday Afternoon
1:30-2:10 Let's Talk About Flow
ers (with slides) Dr. J. H. Winter.
2:20-2:30 Whistling solo, Miss
Betty Barnes.
2:30-3:00 Nebraska Place Since
the Depression in the Scheme of Edu
cation, Mr. L. B. Matthews.
3:00-3:20 Musical program Au
burn ladies quartette.
3:20-3:50 Character Development
Through Play, Miss Elizabeth McCol
lum. 4:00-4:45 Training School Band.
March formation and concert. S. L.
Clements, director.
4:45-5:30 Leisure half hour. Dor
mitory parlors and lawn.
5:30 Picnic supper. West campus.
8:15 Concert (Budget event) Fac
ulty and students of music depart
ment. Friday Morning
7:45 Breakfast at dormitory.
8:30-8:40 Group singing, Mrs.
Inice Dunning, director.
8:40-8:50 Announcements.
8:50-9:20 Legends and Mythology
of the Stars, A. L. Hill.
9:20-10:00 College convocation.
10:00-10:20 Address, Mrs. M. S
McDuffee.
10:20-10:30 Vocal solo, Mrs. A. V.
Lnrson.
10:30-12:00 Symposium. Riding
Our Hobbies (With exhibits). J.
Lindstrom. radio: Mrs. Castle Brown,
antique furniture; Mrs. G. H. Jodor,
writing; Miss Grace Tear, old glass,
Miss Eunice Haskins, pottery.
12:20-1:20 Luncheon. Home Eco
nomics rooms. Miss Edna Weare,
supervisor.
Friday Afternoon
1:30-2:10. Know Your State (with
slides) A. B. Clayburn.
2:20-2:50 Musical program, u. .
Steck.
2:50-3:20 Value of Athletics in tne
Development of Fine Manhood,
Stuart Bailer.
3:20-3:50 Magic, T. K. Wilson.
4:00-4:45 One act play, D. J. Na
bors. MAYOR CALLS CONFERENCE
Pittsburgh. Mayor Cornelius D.
Scully called a meeting of striking
mailers for Thursday morning in an
attempt to end the strike that has
stilled the presses of the city's three
daily newspapers for two days. "This
is the first concrete step to get to
gether," said T. R. Williams, secre
tary of the Pittsburgh Publishers
association, but the strikers remained
silent.
"I have invited Clarence J. Mo-
ser, of the Pennsylvania department
of labor and industry; L. J. Smith,
of the United States department of
labor; County Commissioner John J.
Kane, and Rand Anderson, interna
tional secretary of the mailers' trade
district union, to be present," said
the mayor's announcement. Mean
time, more than a half million read
ers went without newspapers.
ASKS UNEMPLOYMENT CHECK
Washington. A proposal for a
federal census of the unemployed
reached the senate Thursday, accom
panied by a hint that President
Roosevelt favors it.
Chairman Black (d., Ala.) of the
education and labor committee sug
gested the survey, which would be
financed from the administration's
1.5 billion dollars relief fund. Black
told reporters he had discussed the
proposal with the president and add
ed: "I don't believe he will oppose
it." A republican proposal that 20
million dollars be set aside for a
similar purpose was rejected by the
senate Tuesday.
DROWNED YOUTH BIHIED
Louisville, Neb. Funeral rites for
Roland Landis, 19, who was drowned
Monday evening in Stone lake, were
held Wednesday afternoon. Survivors
included his parents, Mr. and Mrs.
Claude D. Landis, and his grandpar
ents, Mr. and Mrs. I. B. Green, with
whom he has made his home. Unable
to swim, Landis was floating on a
log when he fell off in water about
15 feet deep. When his companions
failed to locate him by diving, they
got boats tand after a two hour
search recovered hi3 body with
grappling hooks.
State Harvest
Workers Form
Brotherhood
Auburn Organization Plans to Com
bat Floating Labor; Minimum
Wage Is Prescribed.
Auburn, Neb., June 23. An or
ganization of harvest workers, known
as "The Brotherhood of Harvest
Helpers of Southern Nebraska," is
being formed here for the purpose of
combating the annual influx of itin
erant labor to the state's wheat fields
and to enforce a minimum wage for
harvesters.
The brotherhood, whose principal
aim is described as being to "save
Nebraska jobs for Nebraska labor," is
getting enthusiastic support not only
from workmen but from business men
and farmer-employers as well. Busi
ness men here believe the organiz
ation will have far-reaching effects
in bettering farm employment condi
tions. 50 Workers Sign
Circulation of a pledge embodying
the brotherhood's policies began Tues
day and by noon today 50 workers
had signed. Signers agree not to
work for less than 40 cents an hour
plus board, and in return promise to
work hard and faithfully.
Membership is open to any person
employed in the harvesting of crops
in southeastern Nebraska. Organiz
ational expenses are -being defrayed
by voluntary contributions from
members, no contribution to exceed
40 cents.
Following is the text of the bro
therhood's pledge:
"We the undersigned, desiring to
form an association for the purpose
of promoting and best interests of
farmers and agricultural laborers of
southeastern Nebraska through mu
tual understanding and co-operation
as between each of us farm laborers
and as between our employers, do
by this agreement declare ourselves
to be a voluntary organization known
as the Brotherhood of Harvest Help
ers of Southeastern Nebraska.
Work Faithfully
"Our membership shall be open to
any person performing labor in the
harvesting of agricultural crops in
southeastern Nebraska during the
year 1937.' We each promise one to
the other and to the farmers for
whom we shall work that we will
work hard and faithfully, performing
our duties without waste of time and
in a manner that our employers may
obtain the most benefit from our ser
vices. "We further promise that we will
not perform any work as harvest
helpers or laborers unless we are
paid a wage of at least 40 cents per
hour plus board; that we will, by
peaceful and legal means, dissuade
and influence any other harvest la
borers from working for a less wage;
and it shall be agreed that prefer
ence of employment shall be given
to residents of the community where
the harvest work is being done."
ON THE WEST COAST
Word has been received from Bron
son Timm and Leroy Ruse that they
have reached the west coast and after
a visit at Los Angeles are preparing
to leave for San Francisco and north,
em California for a visit before they
start on the eastward swing towards
home. They are planning on visit
ing the Yellowstone park on the way
back to Plattsmouth on their motor
cycle tour.
All kinds of commercial print
ing done promptly at the Journal
office.
NOTICE
State of Nebraska
83.
County of Cass
It is hereby certified that at a
regular meeting of the German Evan- j
gelical Lutheran Synod of Nebraska, j
held at Grand Island, Nebraska, May
19, 1937, to May 23, 1937, the name
of said Corporation was changed from
' German Evangelical Lutheran Synod
of Nebraska" to "Evangelical Luth-j
eran Synod in the Midwest of the;
United Lutheran Church in America.
And that Article 1 of the amended
articles of said Corporation was
changed to read "The name of this
Corporation shall be the Evangelical
Lutheran Synod in the Midwest of
the United Lutheran Church in Am
erica," and that by virtue of the
change of said name, Article 5 of said
amended articles was changed to sub
stitute the name Evangelical Luth
eran Synod in the Midwest of the
United Lutheran Church in America
for the name German Evangelical
Lutheran Synod of Nebraska.
In witness whereof we have here
unto subscribed our names and affix
ed the corporate seal this 16th day
of June, 1937.
F. A. NOLTE,
Attest: President.
A LENTZ,
Secretary (Seal) J17-4w
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Adjt. Gen. Emil Marx
Adjt. Gen. Emil Marx of Colum
bus, O., takes charge of Ohio Na
tional Guard troops ordered in the
strike areas 6f Warren and
Youngstown, O., by Gov. Martin
L. Davey, who declared a modi
fied form of martial law to pre
vent attempted reopening of
trike-bound steel plants.
Counties will
Get $34,260 in
Relief Funds
Balance of Sum Established by the
1935 Legislature to Be Paid,
Assistance Head Says.
Lincoln, June 24. Eighty-four of
Nebraska's 93 counties will receive
a total of ?34,2G0 as direct relief
balances remaining in the fund es
tablished by the 1935 legislature,
N. C. Vandemoer, state assistance
director, announced today.
The money, he said, was withheld
from the counties to cover the cost
of distributing commodities from last
Jan . 1 to June 30. Estimated
amounts for June, however, have
been deducted and the counties are
receiving the remainder.
Because state direct relief will end
July 1, the assistance committee is
turning the balances over to the
counties, the director said. Among
the counties and the amounts are:
Adams, $685; Banner, $43; Boone,
$384; Box Butte, $309; Boyd, $187;
Brown, $150; Buffalo, $C34; Cedar,
$428; Cherry, $284; Clay, $35;;
Custer, $683; Dakota, $247; Dawes,
$299; Dixon, $302; Douglas, $6,078;
Franklin, $237; Frontier, $211; Fur
nas, $316; Gage, $788; Gosper, $111;
Greeley, $220.
Hall, $707; Hamilton, $317; Holt,
$430; Howard, $261; Jefferson,
$42S; Johnson, $236; Kearney,
$211; Keith, $175; Keya Paha, $83;
Kimball, $121; Knox, $498; Lancas
ter, $2rC17; Lincoln, $668; Madison,
$679; Merrick, $277; Morrill, $259;
Nance, $227; Phelps, $241; Pierce,
$289; Red Willow, $361; Rock, $87;
Scotts luff, $747; Sioux, $121; Stan
ton, $203; Wayne, $275.
NORRIS IMPROVING
Washington. Naval hospital offi
cials said that the condition of Sen
ator Norris (ind., Neb.) is "improv
ing steadily." He suffered an attack
of indigestion Tuesday.
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